Angierae75 Member

I do. You're probably more active than you thought. I always thought I should be "sedentary" but my FItbit has shown me that I should actually be "lightly active" most days.

You would be surprised at how "sedentary", sedentary really is. I am set to sedentary and it only takes about 3500 steps to get past sedentary and start getting calories added on. This explains a lot about my earlier failures at weight loss - I wasn't eating as much as I could have been, and I would get frustrated and…

Not at all, because my days are never that consistent, not even for a week, much less five.

I eat my breakfasts and lunches at work, so that stuff is separate. As for dinners, we all eat the same things but I measure and do portion control.

We went out to Benihana last night. It was delicious. I haven't finished logging it all, but I'm sure I went over. So the rest of this week, I'll make sure I leave about 200-250 calories a day on the table, as it were, and it'll all balance out. A nice meal with my daughter was worth it.

I plug in my dinner first thing, so I know how much I have left for the rest of the day. If I earn more calories (I have a FitBit) I will use about half of those for a nighttime snack if I need to.

Because the 1200 already includes at deficit. The number MFP gives you already takes out whatever you should be in deficit (500 calories for 1 lb per week, 750 for 1.5, 1000 for 2.)

Sometimes I'm over my calories because there's a special meal out, or a party, or whatever. Last weekend I didn't track my food on Saturday or Sunday because I was out of town visiting friends and they eat out a lot. I also drank Saturday night. I "only" lost half a pound last week. Oh well. I'm in this for the long haul,…

I eat 1400 without exercise (and generally closer to 1600 with exercise) and I'm fine, but I have to sometimes decide if I'm hungry or just thinking about food. If it isn't meal/snack time, my thing is that my stomach has to be actually growling. Otherwise I wait until my next snack. (I eat three meals + two, sometimes…

We have a lower level in our building that isn't used much, so I walk laps in there for ten minutes in the morning, ten minutes in the afternoon, and for a half hour at lunch if I have time. I can't wait for the weather to get nicer so I can just do 45 minutes outside at lunch!

Because the calories it gives you originally already has your deficit built in. If you ate every calorie MFP gives you, you'd lose weigh. If you exercise, you "earn" more to eat.

I have lost 10% of my body weight and I am starting to see more definition in my cheekbones. It took a while to see it but it's definitely there now.

I find that if I weigh in on day five of my cycle (first day of my period being day 1), the bloat from the week before is generally gone. Also, I generally show a loss. (I am aiming for 2# a week. Generally the weigh in before my period, I maintain or have a slight gain. The weigh in 7 days later generally shows…

Don't think of it as a diet. Chocolate is fine. I just ate a piece of chocolate cake. I've also lost 22 pounds in 22 weeks. According to all the numbers, I "should" be able to lose 2# per week, but it made me crank and I felt like I was depriving myself. Since I decided to just lost 1# a week, I've been much happier. Today…

With your Fitbit and MFP linked, the extra calories your Fitbit gives you will translate over to MFP. I am set to sedentary but if i hit my 10k steps goal I usually get around 300-400 extra calories to eat.

I let MFP set itself to what it thinks it should be (currently: Sedentary, lose 1# per week = 1400 calories) and then I eat back most of what my Fitbit gives me. I don't use TDEE so someone with more experience with that might be able to help you.

I have a flex, not the HR, and I have lost 22# eating back most of what Fitbit gives me (sometimes I'm just not hungry.) I can't speak for the HR, though.

I have lost almost 10% of my orginal weight. I can see it along my sides. While my tummy and butt don't seem to have changed at all, I feel like you can see my natural waist better. I think I will really notice it when I can go down another jeans size. Right now my 18s are too big but I can't comfortably get into a 16, and…

As someone said above, I eat when I want, what I want. I generally have breakfast around 9:30. I eat lunch at 12:30 or 1, so if I get hungry before that, I have healthy snacks available to me to have. I almost always need an afternoon snack, since we don't eat dinner til about 7, so there's something around to eat around…

I just use MFP for calorie/food tracking and don't worry about what Fitbit's dash says.

That is pretty low. I usually have around 1000 before I leave the house in the morning for work. But it's good that you know that, so now you can start setting yourself goals to increase it!

My birthday. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Other various parties. I eat what I want. I log it. This is a lifestyle change, and in our lives, we have big meals and celebrations occasionally. I won't feel guilty about it, but I do log it so I know.

People who aren't big don't understand weight. The other day my coworker heard me telling another coworker that I'd finally gotten under 200 pounds, and she was stunned. She said "I would have thought you weighed 160 pounds. (I was 220 when I started this weight loss journey.) Don't worry about what your family says.

Definitely not a problem. (I post, while eating a Kitkat bar)

No, I weigh weekly. But I don't worry too much if I'm up a pound or don't lose much, because it all evens out eventually. December/January was difficult because it took a while to look "right" - there was about four weeks out of 8 where I either maintained or was up. But in the long run, it all came off.

As others have said, trends. I look at my weight on the first Monday of the month, and it should be about 4# lower than the weight the first Monday of the previous month. In between, it fluctuates a lot. (I'll be up a pound one week, then down 2.5 the next, etc etc.) For example, here's my numbers: 10/4 (starting weight)…

I look at my weight loss journey in 20 pound increments. I hit the first one today (199.8, I've lost 20.2 lbs), and now I'm aiming for the 2nd 20 pounds (at 1# per week, that will happen around 6/29) and then my 3rd 20 pound (and my overreaching "big goal") is scheduled for around 11/9. I'll reassess then and decide what I…

I never lose the TOM weight until after I stop. (I was down 2.2 lbs this morning after being up last week. Started Wednesday, finished Saturday.)

Eat it, log it, move on. This is a lifestyle change, and you are not going to spend your entire life not celebrating, going to parties, etc. The goal is for days like that to be a treat, an occasional thing, not every day.

My doctor weighs me. She just doesn't tell me to lose weight when there's no medical reason for me to lose weight.